Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Lights on Christmas Eve: A Western European/North American Tradition

Happy Christmas... Everyone

Hey everybody, remember this? Although this is probably not the first computer-controlled Christmas light display in history, it's most certainly the first to have gone viral across the internet. 2005, according to our recollection. Here's a little trip down memory lane for veteran web surfers:

Well... time and technology march on. After an extensive Google search, we're linking a few more of the latest of these Christmas-themed light displays, proving among other things, that plenty of people in America possibly still have the Christmas spirit (and possibly way too much time and money on their hands,) even during this recession plagued Christmas season:

A very merry ChristmasAnd a happy New YearLet's hope it's a good oneWithout any fearAnd so this is ChristmasFor weak and for strongFor rich and the poor onesThe world is so wrongAnd so happy ChristmasFor black and for whiteFor yellow and red onesLet's stop all the fight

Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings, Salaam Alaikum, Feliz Navidad, Live Long and Prosper or Merry Christmas... take your pick [or, considering that Ogden City is named after the great mountain man and bourgeois of the Hudson Bay Company, "whatever floats your stick."]

[Curmudgeon quietly reminds the author of the above that it was not Democrats or liberals who objected to "Merry Christmas" as a greeting. Rather, it was wing-nut whacko conservative Bill O'Reilly and allied Christianist fruit-loops who objected to being greeted with "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings." Just to keep the record straight....]